Exploring migration, habitability and climate change in the future – scenarios for Africa and Asia
Insight by Emily Wright O'Kelly, Tobias Bernstein
News publ. 29. Jun 2012
The new international ISO 50001 standard for energy management systems, applicable to any organisation, benchmarks energy management, and establishes a framework for organisations to manage energy use efficiently and setting up such a system. adelphi has successfully completed a training of trainers in Nepal.
With South Asia’s demand for energy growing, the need for innovative ways of energy conservation is also increasing. Energy management systems are no novelty in the region but its penetration and adoption is slow. To accelerate this project adelphi has developed a Training of Trainers on behalf of the Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) within the framework of the “Regional Energy Efficiency Programme (REEP)”. The latest session held in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu was aimed at employees from governmental authorities and private institutions active in the field of energy efficiency from Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The aim is to qualify them as Trainers for energy management systems according to ISO 50001 who themselves will in future train industry representatives in implementing energy management systems in their home countries.